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Esch-sur-Alzette ((ルクセンブルク語:Esch-Uelzecht), (ドイツ語:Esch-an-der-Alzette) or ''Esch-an-der-Alzig'', (フランス語:Esch-sur-Alzette)) is a commune with city status in south-western Luxembourg. It is the country's second city, and its second-most populous commune, with a population of 33,286 inhabitants.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Affichage de tableau )〕 It lies in the south-west of the country, on the border with France. The town is usually referred to just as Esch, but there is also a village and commune further north named Esch-sur-Sûre from which to distinguish it. It lies in the valley of the Alzette, which flows through the town. The capital, Luxembourg City, is roughly to the north-east. ==History== For a long time Esch was a small farming village in the valley of the Uelzecht river. This changed when important amounts of iron ore were found in the area in the 1850s. With the development of the mines and the steel industry the town's population multiplied tenfold in a couple of decades. In 1911 the steel and iron producing company ARBED was founded.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ArcelorMittal - History )〕 and the development of the steel industry, especially in the south of the country, provided Luxembourg with sustained economic growth during the second half of the 19th century.〔(Economic and social portrait of Luxembourg : Introduction )〕 In the 1970s as a result of the steel crisis the mines and many of the blast furnaces were shut down, the last one, in Esch-Belval, definitely halting its operations in 1997.〔 The blast furnaces were replaced by an electric furnace that is fed with scrap metal rather than iron ore.〔(History – BELVAL )〕 Today the industrial wastelands on Belval left behind by the steel industry, are being redeveloped and converted into a new, modern city quarter. New cultural buildings such as the cinema Utopolis Belval〔(Utopolis.lu - Utopolis Belval )〕 and the Rockhal, Luxemburg’s biggest concert hall,〔(Rockhal: Featured )〕 schools, flats and Belval Plaza, a shopping centre, have been built in the last years. The area around the old blast furnaces will host different structures of the University of Luxembourg, many research centres and the national archives.〔(Site Esch/Belval - esch.lu )〕 Two of the University's three faculties will relocate there: The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education Sciences will first do so in summer 2014, followed by the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication in 2015 and 2016.〔(L’Université prête pour Belval - Economie et Finance au Luxembourg - paperJam )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esch-sur-Alzette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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